Last week, the annual LIBER conference took place in Riga, Latvia. Approximately 350 delegates, many of them representing LIBER members, were in attendance for three days of talks, workshops, networking and events in the amazing setting of the newly opened National Library of Latvia. In collaboration with SPARC-Europe, LIBER hosted a pre-conference workshop to introduce…
The Europeana Newspapers project, in which LIBER is a partner, has just released a promotional video showcasing historic newspapers. Take a look at the film below. If you’d like to know more about the Europeana Newspapers project, and ways to make historic newspapers more accessible, consider joining the project’s final workshop in London on September…
Dr Paul Ayris, who served as LIBER President for four years and the Foundation for a decade, has now finished his term at the head of the Foundation. At the LIBER 2014 Annual Conference, a new President, Kriistina Hormia-Poutanen, was appointed. Ms Hormia-Poutanen gave the following speech in honour of Dr Ayris’s achievements during his time as…
At LIBER’s 2014 Annual Conference, Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, Director of Library Network Services at the National Library of Finland, was appointed as LIBER’s 11th President. Ms Hormia-Poutanen is the first female President in LIBER’s history. In her opening address to the audience at LIBER 2014, she promised to focus on collaboration with LIBER Libraries and with the European Commission in…
In July 2012, LIBER’s E-Science working group released ‘Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management’. Since then, several libraries across Europe have started to build up or have expanded their capacities for research data management, typically combining e-infrastructure and support services. To further encourage libraries in continuing this process, LIBER’s Steering…
LIBER’s Annual Conference is being streamed live from Riga, Latvia this week. Via the streaming link, you can watch all of our plenary sessions. The broadcasts will take place at the following times CET. July 2nd 12:00-14:00 July 3rd 10:00-11:00, 12:45-13:45, 15:30-16:30 July 4th 10:00-10:45 The times listed on the streaming link are the local…
Eighteen European research and library organisations, including LIBER, are today calling on Elsevier to withdraw its current policy on text and data mining (TDM) Our request has been laid out and explained in an open letter to Michiel Kolman, Senior VP Global Academic Relations at the academic publishing company. We believe that Elsevier’s current TDM policy places unnecessary…
Six Open Access (OA) publishers have joined LIBER and LERU in publicly stating their opposition to the European Publishers Council’s EPC Copyright Vision Paper 2014: Copyright Enabled on the Network. They are: Cameron Neylon, PLOS Brian Hole, Ubiquity Press Mark Patterson, eLife Peter Binfield, PeerJ Rupert Gatti, Open Book Publishers Xenia van Edig, Copernicus Publications The OA publishers…
The Glasgow School of Art is asking for book donations, following a devastating fire on 23 May 2014, which destroyed the renowned Mackintosh Library. “We have received many offers of book donations to help us rebuild our lost collections. In response we have released a wants list of specific titles that we are seeking,” said…
LIBER recently issued a call for nominations to its Executive Board. By the closing date for nominations (19 June 2014), the following people had been put forward. PRESIDENT Candidate: Ms Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, National Library of Finland, Helsinki, Finland. Proposer: Dr Paul Ayris, UCL, London, UK. VICE-PRESIDENT Candidate: Ms Jeannette Frey, BCU Lausanne, Switzerland. Proposer: Ms Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, National Library of Finland,…
Note: Since the original publication of this letter, six Open Access publishers have joined our call. See the updated letter. LIBER and LERU (the League of European Research Universities) have released a letter which publicly states our opposition to the European Publishers Council’s EPC Copyright Vision Paper 2014: Copyright Enabled on the Network. The letter underlines our shared…
On May 27, LIBER met with representatives of the Confederation of Australian University Libraries (CAUL), the Confederation of New Zealand University Libraries (CONZUL), and the International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions (IFLA). The delegation from CAUL and CONZUL is on a two-week European Study Tour, and requested a meeting to exchange ideas about common…
